Ephigenie MONTPETIT

(b. 14 September 1827 , Les Cèdres, Lower Canada d. 14 August 1880 , Saint-Zotique, Soulanges, Quebec, Canada )

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Ephigenie MONTPETIT was born 14 September 1827 in Les Cèdres, Lower Canada

Ephigenie MONTPETIT was the child of ? and ?

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Ephigenie married Benoni-Jeremie PROVOST 6 July 1847 in Saint-Polycarpe, Canada East . The couple had (at least) 1 child.
Benoni-Jeremie PROVOST was born 16 July 1822 in Saint-Polycarpe, Québec, Canada. Benoni-Jeremie died 31 March 1899 in Saint-Zotique, Soulanges, Quebec, Canada.

Ephigenie MONTPETIT died 14 August 1880 in Saint-Zotique, Soulanges, Quebec, Canada.
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Québec Généalogie - Over time, Québec has gone through a series of name changes
From its inception in the early 1600s until 1760, it was called Canada, New France.
1760 to 1763, it was simply Canada
1763 to 1791 - Province of Québec
1791 to 1867 - Lower Canada
1867 to present - Québec, Canada.

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Ephigenie MONTPETIT married

Benoni-Jeremie PROVOST-- Date: 6 July 1847 Place: Saint-Polycarpe, Canada East

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Children of Benoni-Jeremie PROVOST and Ephigenie MONTPETIT:

Jean Baptiste PROVOST (b.19 March 1856, St Zotique, Quebec, Canada d. 9 April 1941, Cornwall, Ontario, Canada)
m. Adele POIRIER 5 August 1878

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1827 Birth
14 September 1827
Les Cèdres, Lower Canada

1829 - The sewing machine is invented (Barthélemy Thimonnier, France)

1830 - June 26 - William IV becomes King of England

1836 - July 21 - Opening of the first railway in Canada from La Prairie to St. Jean, Quebec

1837 - June 20 - Victoria becomes Queen of England

1839 - February 24 - Steam shovel patented by William Smith Otis (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)

1840 to 1860s - French-Canadian emigration to the United States

1841 - February 11 – Act of Union - The two colonies of The Canadas are merged into the United Province of Canada

1843 - The Christmas card is invented (Sir Henry Cole and John Callcott Horsley, England)

Artificial Freezer Patented (Nancy M. Johnson, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA)

1845 - The rubber band is invented (Stephen Perry, England)

The refrigerator is invented (John Gorrie, United States)

1847 Marriage / Partner
Ephigenie MONTPETIT and Benoni-Jeremie PROVOST 6 July 1847, Saint-Polycarpe, Québec, Canada

She was 19 years old.

1849 - The safety pin is invented (Walter Hunt, United States)

1852-53 - The Grand Trunk Railway receives its charter.

1854 - The French seigneurial system of land tenancy is finally abolished in Canada East.

1856 Birth of Child
Jean Baptiste PROVOST was born 19 March 1856, St Zotique, Quebec, Canada

Ephigenie was 28 years old.

1857 - Toilet paper is invented (Joseph Gayetty, United States)

1857 - Ottawa chosen by Queen Victoria as the capital of the united colony of Canada.

1858 - March 30 - H. L. Lipman, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, patented the first pencil with eraser

1864 - Pasteurization is invented (Louis Pasteur, France)

1867 - Canada becomes a sovereign nation by an act of the British Parliament (the British North America Act). Ontario, Quebec, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick are united as the Dominion of Canada.